Fukuoka?

I was in a bit of a state of delerium when I woke up this morning. So my thoughts were on how to pronounce Fukuoka. I'd orginally thought it might be fuku-oka, but Jake reckons it could be more like fu-ku-ka. Anyway, for some reason I couldn't get this out of my head between 6 and 7 this morning... silly really.... I'm sure wikipedia would have the answers....

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It's Fu-ku-o-ka... the "o" is not silent (though, I'd imagine that if you say it fast enough, it could be hard to catch!). The name is derived from two characters 福 (fuku: luck or fortune) and 岡 (hill), so I guess the literal meaning would be something like "lucky hill" (though sometimes Japanese kanji are used just for the sound they make... not the root meaning. :-)